Understanding customer expectations and how they are changing is vital to developing sales strategies that will succeed in today's complex marketplace. Based on research studies conducted by Learning International, a worldwide leader in sales and service training, this book provides insights into the principles and practices used by some of the world's leading sales organizations.

Whether you are an accomplished sales executive leading a large organization or a sales manager leading a team, your ability to remove obstacles and speed the sales process will determine your success. High-Performance Selling is geared for the sales leader who has to persuade others to work as a sales force of one. Written in a straightforward fashion by veteran sales management consultant Anthony Chaine, this book shows you how to: - lead sales organizations- build solid sales operation- improve cross-functional team cooperation- build better hiring and recruiting systems- develop a sales culture that drives performance- empowers your sales managers to create winning teams"I have worked with Anthony, and I can say firsthand, his leadership style has had a profound impact on every level of our organization. His approach is profoundly visionary and hugely influential. I highly recommend Anthony, his approach, and his book."-Antonio Casanova, CEO of NOVAPAY"World-class selling is about aiding customers to make better choices. Anthony's inspiring stories and honest advice provides insight that sales leaders at every level can use to their benefit. High-Performance Selling is a thought-provoking, good read on an important subject."-Tom Howard, Managing Director TM Cards Networks"Your success as a leader is as good the success of your sales teams. Anthony shows you how to make the right decisions to lead your sales organization towards peak performances while eliminating bottlenecks to keep your sales organization moving toward significance."-Brian Luc, Vice President of Business OperationsAnthony Chaine is an expert in sales management and leadership. He has won multiple awards as a quota carrying sales leader, trainer, and instructor. He is the founder and the CEO of Elite Sales Leadership Consulting LLC. He specialized in management and sales training. Visit asalesleader.com for tools and resources as well as information on your seminars and coaching programs.

Sales managers have the most difficult job in the business world. They are responsible not just for revenue, but also for the hiring, coaching, training, and deployment of the employees who must generate it. Before the advancements that inspired Scientific Selling, sales managers had few tools to help them succeed at these disparate yet essential tasks. Today, however, the scientific approaches described in this book allow sales managers to more effectively measure, refine, and improve every aspect of the sales environment. Using easily-understood examples, graphics, charts, and explanations, Scientific Selling describes how to: Predictably improve sales results. Attract and retain top sales performers. Sharply decrease employee turnover. Spend sales training dollars more wisely. Better target sales coaching efforts. Move into consultative selling more quickly. And much more. Scientific Selling features over a dozen case studies illustrating exactly how scientific measurement and testing have improved sales performance within different kinds of sales groups inside multiple industries.

The data shows that senior executives today face a stark reality: Sales talent is increasingly difficult to find. Traditional selling strategies no longer work. And salespeople today are more distracted and aimless than ever before. To give their organizations true staying power in this tumultuous new market, company leaders must fundamentally change the way they look at sales-or else succumb to the competition. What today's senior leaders need is a high-velocity sales organization: an organization with the right performers, strategy, and infrastructure in place, allowing it to dramatically increase sales by converting more opportunities at higher prices to more prospects. Drawing on hard data, comprehensive research, and the latest science behind selling, Marc Wayshak has developed a system for building these fully sales-driven organizations. The High-Velocity Sales Organization brings together Wayshak's cutting-edge insights as a leading sales consultant with the latest data to create a step-by-step formula for accelerating a sales-driven company culture-from the top down. This guide for senior executives lays out the exact processes company leaders must implement to achieve the three pillars of a high-velocity sales organization: Performers-Learn to identify, recruit, and retain top performers for a consistent flow of A-player salespeople-and far fewer costly mis-hires Strategy-Develop and implement a self-improving, highly adaptive sales strategy that sets your salespeople apart from the competition Infrastructure-Establish a clear system for building out the right sales processes, with the most effective technology, to hold sales teams accountable

The best way to get ahead in sales is by developing the critical soft skills that will enable you not just survive but thrive. Chronic complainers, no accountability finger-pointers, or learning-resistant laggards—these culture-killers costs sales organizations more in productivity than being weak in the so-called hard skills of selling. Sales leadership expert Colleen Stanley shows how emotional intelligence and the development of these critical soft skills improve sales leadership effectiveness and outperforms doubling down on more sales technology tools and fads. In Emotional Intelligence for Sales Leadership, Colleen provides sales secrets that: Shows sales leaders why ‘real world’ empathy and emotion management are the key to building strong relationships with their sales team. Offers simple steps on how sales leaders create sales cultures that embrace feedback and change through the development of critical emotional intelligence skills. Provides guidance on how to identify key emotional intelligence skills needed in your hiring process to build resilient sales teams. Walks readers through the process of training sales teams on soft skills that ensure the consistent execution of the right selling behaviors. The missing link is in hiring for and developing emotional intelligence skills in sellers and sales leaders. Emotional Intelligence for Sales Leadership will connect with anyone charged with growing sales in business-to-business or business-to-consumer sales.

Packed with case studies, Sales Management. Simplified. offers a proven formula for prospecting, developing, and closing deals—in your time, on your terms. Why do sales organizations fall short? Every day, expert consultants like Mike Weinberg are called on by companies to find the answer - and it's one that may surprise you. Typically, the issue lies not with the sales team but with how it is being led. Through their attitude and actions, senior executives and sales managers can unknowingly undermine performance. Weinberg tells it straight by calling out the problems plaguing sales forces and the costly mistakes made by even the best-intentioned sales managers. The good news is that with the right guidance, results can be transformed. In Sales Management. Simplified., Weinberg teaches managers how to: Implement a simple framework for sales leadership Foster a healthy, high-performance sales culture Conduct productive meetings Put the right people in the right roles Retain top producers and remediate underperformers Point salespeople at the proper targets Blending blunt, practical advice with funny stories and examples from the field, Sales Management. Simplified. delivers the tools every sales manager needs to succeed. Managing sales doesn't have to be complicated, and the solution starts with you!

The new way to transform a sales culture with clarity, authenticity, and emotional intelligence Too often, the sales process is all about fear. Customers are afraid that they will be talked into making a mistake; salespeople dread being unable to close the deal and make their quotas. No one is happy. Mahan Khalsa and Randy Illig offer a better way. Salespeople, they argue, do best when they focus 100 percent on helping clients succeed. When customers are successful, both buyer and seller win. When they aren't, both lose. It's no longer sufficient to get clients to buy; a salesperson must also help the client reduce costs, increase revenues, and improve productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction. Elevate your career with this essential guide for sales professionals and entrepreneurs alike.

First-line sales managers (FLMs) play a key role in helping a sales organization drive profitable revenue growth in an ever-changing business environment. But although directly responsible for managing and driving sales force performance, FLMs often don't get enough time, attention, and resources from sales leaders. "Building a Winning Sales Management Team" shows just how important FLMs are to sales organizations--and what happens when companies underinvest in these key players. Authors of four previous books on sales management, Zoltners, Sinha and Lorimer show in "Building a Winning Sales Management Team" just how companies can nurture successful FLMs and improve sales force productivity. The book has dozens of real-life examples of how investing in first-line management paid off in a big way. In developing the book, the authors collaborated with leaders from some of the world's top companies. The authors also draw on their cumulative experience as sales and marketing consultants, faculty members at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and business speakers and writers to produce fresh, completely original insights on sales force effectiveness. "Building a Winning Sales Management Team" shows in detail exactly how companies can improve FLM performance. The authors reveal eight key drivers for defining, creating and enabling a successful first-line sales management team, and show how FLMs are critical facilitators of change. The book also includes a self-assessment tool to help organizations determine the right priorities to start improving sales management team performance.

Sales force effectiveness drives every company's success, but keeping a sales organization at the top of its game is a constant challenge. As experts in the field, Andy Zoltners and Prabha Sinha have helped sales leaders around the world perfect their sales strategy, operations, and execution. Combining strategic insight with pragmatic advice, Building a Winning Sales Force provides current and aspiring sales leaders with innovative yet practical solutions to many of the most common issues faced by today’s sales organi­za­tions. The book shows readers how to: assess how good their sales force really is • identify sales force improvement opportunities • implement tools and processes that have immediate impact on sales effec­tive­ness • attract and retain the best salespeople • design incen­tive compensation plans • set goals • manage sales perform­ance • motivate the sales force With practical advice and case studies of companies that have conquered even the most challenging obstacles, Building a Winning Sales Force will enable every company to drive sales and stay competitive.

This is a comprehensive guide for penetrating new accounts, differentiating ones solution during the sales cycle, and closing large deals. Based on extensive interviews with over 1,000 key information technology decision makers and top technology salespeople, the book provides state of the art technology sales strategies and advanced tactics for senior salespeople who want to learn the secrets of top performers. Readers will find advice on how to win over C-level I.T. executives and senior business leaders in finance, operations, manufacturing, human resources, marketing, sales, and engineering; discover how I.T. organisational structure impacts company decision maker: determine how to gain strategic account control based upon the people, process, and politics of selling to complex businesses; and learn to conduct persuasive sales calls with sales linguistics, the study of how the customers mind uses and interprets language, and much more.